Readit NewsI'm aware that these investments often go south. I've seen HSBC's foray into "Fintech" and it was rough.
Boom & Bucket is building the Carvana for the $300b heavy equipment space.
We're hiring an engineering manager, full stack engineers, and a growth marketer.
Email: adam@boomandbucket.com
Stack: Go, React
Opportunity --> build the future of online payments and identity
Reality --> a lot of hard work, spending time between putting out fires & building new core infrastructure
Team --> facebook, twitter, airbnb, google, square, braintree, stanford
Traits --> fire, passion, deep intellectual curiosity, openness to feedback & a care for the truth vs ego
When it's all said and done, most of these startups will settle for a few offshore contractors or hire remote people who live in cheaper parts of the country where $90K goes a lot further.
The tried and true "solution" to this problem is to import a number of H1b visa holders from other countries who are willing to work for the lower salaries and accept the lifestyle choices that it imposes in the Bay Area. For many of them, $90K in the Valley is still an upgrade from where they are coming from.
For those of us with a decade or more of experience, it's best to focus on the post Series A startups that have the money to pay. However, many of these jobs involve cleaning up code written by those inexperienced folks who accepted less pay in the early days.
Football is thriving because of fantasy and betting. The NBA has clips, NFTs, and creators producing endless content.
What do the Olympics have? Sure they have human stories, but you need to watch a major network to consume them. The games need to figure out how to fit in today's consumption model.